{"pk":27967,"title":"Improving predictions of polite and frustrated speech using linguistic features associated with different cognitive states in children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Childrens poor emotional self-regulation is associated withpoor mental health outcomes. This study presents methods thatimprove prediction rates of polite and frustrated speech usinglinguistic cues. These improvements can be used to help auto-matically identify characteristics of poor self-regulation in fu-ture studies. This work adds to previous research by consider-ing existing computer science, psychology, and psycholinguis-tics methodologies and findings. More specifically, featuresassociated with childrens cognitive control capacities acrossage groups are considered to investigate acoustic, semantic,and syntactic features in speech. The current analyses indi-cate that the features most predictive for polite and frustratedspeech differ, a combination of features work best for predict-ing both speech types, and the predictive quality of featuresdo not vary substantially by age. Further work should be con-ducted to clarify how well these findings transfer to general andclinical populations as well as to consider the developmentalnorms of different age groups.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"self-regulation; linguistic features; machine learning"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67c4b0n2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Cindy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chiang","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","department":""},{"first_name":"Jacqueline","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brixey","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","department":""},{"first_name":"James","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gibson","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","department":""},{"first_name":"Morteza","middle_name":"","last_name":"Deghani","name_suffix":"","institution":"USC","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27967/galley/17605/download/"}]}